{"id":6693,"date":"2021-03-31T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/mending-vs-ending-the-fight-against-planned-obsolescence\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:29:17","slug":"mending-vs-ending-the-fight-against-planned-obsolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/mending-vs-ending-the-fight-against-planned-obsolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending vs. Ending &#8212; The Fight Against Planned Obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Repairmanifesto_en_final.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1273\" data-original-width=\"900\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Repairmanifesto_en_final.jpg\" width=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Manifesto\">https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Manifesto<\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>We don&#8217;t get a lot of mail from Darwin, Australia, so the message coming in from Phil VK8MC immediately got our attention. When I looked into the details I realized that it was very SolderSmoke-relevant. <i>The Guardian<\/i> article that Phil cited even mentions hobbyists tinkering with electronic devices in their sheds (that would be us!). Phil points to the connection between our repair efforts and the struggle to save the planet: &#8220;<span face=\"\"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;\">It&#8217;s not just a hobby, it&#8217;s an ethical position which contributes to the well being of the planet. A higher calling indeed!&#8221; <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span face=\"\"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;\">Here is the article Phil pointed us to:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/17\/ending-over-mending-planned-obsolescence-is-killing-the-planet?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_ProtonMail\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/17\/ending-over-mending-planned-obsolescence-is-killing-the-planet?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_ProtonMail<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The poster above (which hangs above my workbench) is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Manifesto\">https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Manifesto<\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Manifesto We don&#8217;t get a lot of mail from Darwin, Australia, so the message coming in from Phil VK8MC immediately got our attention. When I looked into the details I realized that it was very SolderSmoke-relevant. The Guardian article that Phil cited even mentions hobbyists tinkering with electronic devices in their sheds (that would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/mending-vs-ending-the-fight-against-planned-obsolescence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mending vs. Ending &#8212; The Fight Against Planned Obsolescence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,313,98,25,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-climate-change","category-repair","category-troubleshooting","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}